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Your Montana Media Inaction

18 September 2011

Rick Hill Goes to Court I can’t think of a news story of comparable significance and strangeness that has been so poorly covered by Montana’s media. The leading GOP candidate for governor, one who is touting his credentials as a business-savvy leader who will restore Montana’s economy, was represented Friday in the Montana Supreme Court [...]

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Sensible, Balanced Rhetoric from A Conservative Montana Blog

6 September 2011

Your sensible right-wing voice in Montana blogs speaks: The Left needs to be destroyed. They need to be eliminated from the face of the Earth. They are dangerous traitors who don’t even deserve the bullet to the head that is waiting for them. Laws should be passed mandating that they immediately commit suicide, the sick [...]

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Editorial Judgment at the IR: Let’s Give Dennis Rehberg a Labor Day Column

5 September 2011

Twelve hours after first reading today’s Independent Record, I’m still amazed that the editors in Butte felt it appropriate to give an opinion column over to Representative Dennis Rehberg on Labor Day. After searching for an apt analogy to describe just how inappropriate that decision was, I kept coming back to Rehberg. Presumably the IR [...]

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A Little Digital Diet

3 September 2011

The start of the school year, completing my summer debate research for Big Sky Debate, and a great little trip up to Glacier National Park have certainly slowed down my posting here lately,something I’m pretty pleased about. It’s not just that my posting has been light. In the past week or so, I’ve dramatically cut [...]

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The Best News Money Can Buy

21 August 2011

There are certainly signs that the Independent Record isn’t doing as well financially as its parent company, Lee Enterprises, would like: they’ve downsized staff, fired laid off their editor(*), and implemented a paywall blocking online content. Today’s paper seems to brazenly demonstrate a new way to increase revenue, offering a news story and opinion piece [...]

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Today in the Independent Record: Badly Misleading Information About Graduation Rates

18 August 2011

I actually feel like kind of a jerk for writing this post, but today’s story in the Independent Record about graduation rates in Montana is such an effective example of why a local newspaper needs an on-site editor to ensure accurate, quality information gets to the public that I felt compelled to call attention to [...]

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Montana News and their Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Coverage of Representative Rehberg

30 July 2011

I’d like to thank Pogie for the opportunity to do a little writing on his site. This morning’s story about Dennis Rehberg’s vote yesterday in the House of Representatives makes clear just how bad modern journalism can be. It’s nothing more than a press release from the Rehberg camp, touting his entirely meaningless vote. What [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup 10 July 2011

10 July 2011

There were a lot of great posts this week about the Yellowstone oil spill. Over at the Button Valley Bugle, a great post about the lack of transparency happening as the whitewash cleanup happens. MT Cowgirl and Rob Kailey discussed Will Deschamps and his latest buffoonery. Finally, lizard argues that Governor Schweitzer needs to consider [...]

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Tom Lutey Goes Reporting Again

29 June 2011

I don’t mean to continue to pick on a single reporter, but once again, Billings Gazette reporter Tom Lutey has done an incredibly sloppy job in his reporting, producing a story that is both inaccurate and one-sided in its description of the ongoing fight over Rick Hill’s Wikipedia page. Lutey writes: Wikipedia locked down former [...]

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Montana Blog Roundup 26 June 2011

26 June 2011

Following the end of the Legislature and a bit of a collective lull in the Montana blogging community, I temporarily stepped away from the Montana Blog Roundup, but we’re back! Below are some of the most interesting posts of the past week on Montana’s blogs. MT Cowgirl takes a look at Rick Hill’s high disapproval [...]

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An Epically Short-Sighted Move at Lee Enterprises

23 June 2011

The Independent Record is confirming what has been rumored around town for the past 20 hours or so, that Lee Enterprises has decided to consolidate the editorial staffs of the Montana Standard and Helena Independent Record, placing both papers under Standard editor Gerry O’Brien. That means that one of the state’s oldest newspapers, and the [...]

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Judith Miller Award for Sloppy Journalism Winner: Tom Lutey, Billings Gazette

17 June 2011

While Tom Lutey has written some sloppy pro-Republican material in the past, his latest press release from the Rehberg campaign reaches a new low in journalistic integrity. These opening paragraphs are just spectacular: Republicans have redirected $1 billion in unspent stimulus money toward storm and flood repairs along the Missouri and Mississippi river basins. The [...]

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